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Retired now from management at phillip morris, inc. Moreover, he possessed two valuable assets the capacity to make knives, and an ability to impart what he knew to tyro knifemakers. On one occasion i invited my friend tim zowada to join me in a sand smelt, about which he wrote an article for the book knives 2012 which and, as tim claims, got him hooked on making bloomery steel. Every part of the knife making process is completed by me in my shop right down to the heat treating and tempering of the steel and rockwell hardness testing of each blade. Drawings and photographs illustrate each step of the project, making the. Boxes offer a wonderful format for metalsmiths and in this book, tim mccreight introduces a variety of metalworking techniques for box construction, hinges an.
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